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Red to unveil the Scarlet "pocket professional" camera at NAB {Engadget}
Jan 8th 2008 1:49PM Details are sketchy, but it is INCORRECT to assume that it'll ship this year. Prototype to be shown at NAB is all they've said. They said prototypes, not even functional prototypes. Look at the release schedule of Red as announced vs. how long it actually took to ship...and then to be fully functional (no audio recording onboard until very recently, for instance). They've shipped something like 250 cameras to date, and are (ever) at the precipice of going into bulk production.
So, my guess: non-functional prototypes shown at NAB.
Images from sensor over the summer.
Working cameras at IBC.
Shipping by NAB 2009.
Many possible release dates along the way, but hopefully they'll have learned from their virtually never accurate guesstimates for Red One ship dates to just ship it when it is ready.
-mike
Editing AVCHD files {DV Guru}
Jan 20th 2007 3:18PM the camera has an HDMI out - one could always buy a $250 Blackmagic Intensity card and capture over that uncompressed to a RAID, or transcode on the fly to DVCPRO HD or whatever your NLE hardware and software support.
SanDisk rolls out 32GB flash-based hard drive {DV Guru}
Jan 4th 2007 10:30AM Red Drive?
Why RED is already a success {DV Guru}
Dec 21st 2006 11:39AM I'm writing this December 21st, after perusing the best/worst
Gregory and hazchem - I respectfully disagree with your stance on Red - I email with the Red team several times a week, have been to their offices and watched them shoot test footage with the sensor test platform, Dave Stump, a respected Hollywood DP has shot with that test platform as well. I expect to lay hands personally on a working prototype probably in the next month or so.
Bill - the benefit of 4K, esp. 4K RAW compressed, is that it will generate a REALLY nice 2x oversampled 2K/1080p or 1080i, or a triple oversampled 720p. Cleaner, smoother, better signal to noise ratio. It'll be worth doing, even for HD projects.
-mike
Distortion free wide-angle lens {DV Guru}
Dec 1st 2006 7:15PM can't resist - OK, the Red dig - they never said it would be shipping by now!
: )
...although they did at one time, when they said "no promises" hope to have it shipping by year end. Looks like they'll maybe have testing units to folks out-of-house by year end at best...not the same.
-mike
HD for Indies: Silicon Imaging SI-2K vs. RED One {DV Guru}
Nov 9th 2006 8:41PM I think the Red will have advantages in image quality and resolution, and that'll be a clincher for a lot of folks. They both have flexible shooting modes, but those modes are very different. Shooting situation will permit tethered shooting? SI-2K can be smaller. Need self contained? Red can be smaller.
SI-2K footage looks noisy, Red looks super clean.
How the MPAA identifies where pirated movies come from {DV Guru}
Nov 1st 2006 5:51PM Yeah, I don't know if anybody else, does, but I see those dots quite often when watching movies in the theater. I figure part of it is the critical eye I've developed from staring unblinking and unflinchingly close at moving digital images over the last 15 or so years, but does anybody else notice and get annoyed by them?
Or are they so fast you don't even see them?
-mike
Apple acquires Silicon Color {DV Guru}
Oct 19th 2006 2:08PM All quiet on the Silicon Color front - no returned emails, no further info. I guess they are waiting for Apple to take over their communication with the users and public.
My thoughts and conjecture on what all this means can be read at:
http://www.hdforindies.com/2006/10/silicon-color-acquired-by-apple-whats.html
Why hasn't Apple included a Blu-ray drive in any of their computers? {Engadget HD}
Sep 23rd 2006 4:00PM OK, this is totally, TOTALLY stupid, folks. Apple is in the downloadable media business, TRUE. And I think they are going to have HD content, TRUE (and I've been predicting an iTV like gadget for over a year on hdforindies.com).
BUT...I think the rason why there isn't a Blu-ray drive are manifold:
1.) I think Apple wants to intro a burner, not just a player - so wait for MWSF for that move, possibly paired with an 8 proc system
2.) they could go third party, but they have their favorites - they historically like to start with Pioneer - see past machines
3.) To NOT include a Blu-Ray (even the player) just to try to encourage downloadable, lesser quality content is just dumb. Dumb idea to think of, dumber to do.
4.) Blu-ray movie support is non-trivial - look at the home entertainment PC sector - you have to have a secured monitor, a secured optical disk, a secured OS, a secured player, etc. Not all the pieces are in place yet, and Apple doesn't like to release partial or incomplete or difficult to use solutions. When they ship a drive, it'll WORK, and not just be "sorry, data only, no movies" or some such nonsense.
Eat My Shorts: How to Make a Short Film {Cinematical}
Sep 4th 2006 1:53AM Might I humbly suggest another resource for the post side of short making, and for some indie viable camera discussions - my own HD For Indies, aka hdforindies.com.
-mike, shamelessly self-plugging
